"At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark."
Deuteronomy 10:1-2
This is the Lord asking Moses to redo what he broke, which seems to be important in keeping track of what God had asked historically, even if the people weren't ready to recieve it and needed some more specific laws to prepare them first.
This seems to be similar to what we have today... we have clear records of what God has asked us, and like the Israelites of old, we aren't quite there yet. We aren't loving our enemies and living the law of consecration fully. We still have poor among us. But we're working our way towards the ideals that the Lord has commanded us, and because we have those ideals "in stone" to refer back to, we can keep moving towards the perfection that God has described to us as a people.
Today, let's move forward and be a little bit better than we have been. As we all do that, we'll grow towards God and progress as a people to be able to be more in tune with the Lord and more open to hearing his voice.
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